Archive for the ‘Simca Aronde’ tag

* The first Geek Squad car? Given that Geek Squad was founded long before VW released the New Beetle, it wasn’t one of those. Rather, as Motoramic wrote this week, it was a 1958 Simca Aronde, followed by a 1960 Ford Falcon, an ice cream truck, and a 1953 Morris Minor.

For nearly 50 years, old, unwanted cars, and some trucks, were being stashed away on a farm in upstate New York, in the hope of one day opening an automotive museum. The current owner, who is the grandson of the original collector, recently gave me a tour of the place, and allowed me to take these photos. Inside the dry building resides lots of noteworthy cars, all of which are in need of some form of restoration but none of which are rot boxes. There’s talk of possibly putting some or all of the cars up for sale, but for now the collection and its location will remain a secret.

A 1947 Ford rests alongside a pair of Studebakers, and an old bike

A pair of Simca Arondes and this blue Austin sedan are the rarest cars of the lot

A 1959 Chevrolet sedan rests in front of a Hudson Hornet

A Willys sedan watches over a pile of hupcaps that numbers in the hundreds

The red ’32 Ford pickup and the black Model A have both been modified for some heavy duty work

Cap’n Tailfin just posted an excellent gallery of pictures of classic and collector cars about to be crushed down in Sturbridge, Massachusetts, including the 1967 Camaro above. The salvage yard, Curboy’s, plans to clear the lot this month, according to the good Cap’n. Among those to be crushed are an early 1930s Reo, a pair of Volvo 1800s, a 1957 Lincoln Continental Premier coupe, a Dodge Coronet convertible, a Simca Aronde, an Olds Dynamic 88 that looks like it could be saved, a bunch of Corvairs, an Econoline pickup, a DeSoto convertible, a Pontiac Tempest convertible… the list goes on. Cap’n Tailfin says to act now, though, to save these cars from becoming a jelly-bean Hyundai.